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" If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 282
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 635 pages
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspere. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a ce'f tSih' mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are alway catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...find the following very applicable sentiments : — " I believe there is in every nation a style that never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered. The polite are always catching...
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Historical and critical matter The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to Ire understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...fabries of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes...language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this .nyle is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...fabries of other poets, passes withont injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology lo consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...fabrics of other poets, passes without injury to the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes...principles of its respective language, as to remain settled or unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. ' If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of it's respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. ' If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of it's respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this stile is probably to be sought...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...consonant and con- M:J\V. '' /genial to the analogy and principles of its respec- '•</«• tive language, as to remain settled and unaltered; (, ,.' this style is probably to be sought in the common1 . intercourse of life, among those who speak only ,' * •', ,' ' to be understood, without...
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